We use longitudinal data on children and their parents to assess the extent of intergenerational mobility in Britain. Based on data from the National Child Development Survey, a cohort of all individuals born in a week of March , we find that the extent of intergenerational mobility is limited. We report a clear intergenerational correlation between fathers and both sons and daughters in te...

The pattern of arthritis in Roman Britain was investigated by examining the skeletons of 416 adults from the Roman cemetery at Poundbury Camp near Dorchester, Dorset. The mean height of the people was not much less than that of the current British population, and the prevalence of right handedness was similar to our own. There was a high prevalence of osteoarthritis for such a relatively young ...

Stopped-flow spectrophotometry and e.p.r. spectroscopy were used to study the kinetics of reduction by dithionite of the oxidized Fe protein of nitrogenase from Klebsiella pneumoniae (Kp2.0 ) in the presence of MgADP at 230C at pH7.4. The active reductant, SO2-, produced by the predissociation of S2042= 2SO2-, reacts with Kp20. (MgADP),, with k 3.0 x 106 + 0.4 x 106 M-l' s-1. The inhibition of ...

As will be seen, the aim is to follow the needs of the child and "to provide the best possible conditions for the life forces within the child to find their fulfilment". Different workers may disagree about which forces and which conditions are involved, but as one of the first workers to expound this theme systematically, all workers in Mental Health must be grateful to Dr. Montessori for the ...

Even if it is a long time since Canute ruled the greater part ot the Scandinavian countries and Britain, they have always been str?ngiy linked by interest and affection and the War has drawn em closer still. Visitors from either side have been quick to feel at home, so much so that it comes as a surprise to them that the anguage spoken is not their own. This situation is in one direction ^uch i...